Edit by descendants

Edit by descendants

My family has a huge descendant book which lists all the descendants of an individual 33 generations ago. I would like to use FTM to digitize that information, but I don't see a way to edit from the oldest person, while seeing all his/her descendants (not just in the published chart, but in the edit screen)? The current view is confined to the selected person and the above generations. I want to see the opposite. Is that possible with FTM or is there a different software that enables that?